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U+212C · SCRIPT CAPITAL B

Script Capital B

  • CodepointU+212C
  • NameSCRIPT CAPITAL B
  • Decimal8492
  • BlockLetterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+212C (ℬ) is SCRIPT CAPITAL B, an uppercase letter in the Letterlike Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a font variant of U+0042 B (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0042 B. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It has standardized variation sequences that request a specific glyph shape: U+212C U+FE00 — chancery style; U+212C U+FE01 — roundhand style. See variation selectors.

How to type ℬ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 84 AC3 bytes
UTF-16212C1 code unit
UTF-320000212C4 bytes
HTML named&Bscr;named character reference
HTML named&bernou;named character reference
HTML named&Bernoullis;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8492;
HTML hex&#x212C;
CSS\212Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u212C
JSON\u212C
Python\u212C
Python\N{SCRIPT CAPITAL B}by name
Java / C#\u212C
C / C++\u212Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{212C}
Go\u212C
Ruby\u212C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8492)
URL-encoded%E2%84%ACpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0042 B
NFKDU+0042 B
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0042BLatin Capital Letter B U+0392ΒGreek Capital Letter Beta U+0412ВCyrillic Capital Letter Ve U+FF22ＢFullwidth Latin Capital Letter B U+1D401𝐁Mathematical Bold Capital B U+1D435𝐵Mathematical Italic Capital B U+1D469𝑩Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B U+1D4D1𝓑Mathematical Bold Script Capital B U+1D505𝔅Mathematical Fraktur Capital B U+1D539𝔹Mathematical Double-Struck Capital B U+1D56D𝕭Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital B U+1D5A1𝖡Mathematical Sans-Serif Capital B U+1D5D5𝗕Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital B U+1D609𝘉Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital B U+1D63D𝘽Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital B U+1D671𝙱Mathematical Monospace Capital B
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+2126ΩOhm Sign U+2127℧Inverted Ohm Sign U+2128ℨBlack-Letter Capital Z U+2129℩Turned Greek Small Letter Iota U+212AKKelvin Sign U+212BÅAngstrom Sign U+212DℭBlack-Letter Capital C U+212E℮Estimated Symbol U+212FℯScript Small E U+2130ℰScript Capital E U+2131ℱScript Capital F U+2132ℲTurned Capital F